Tranny trucker's £20,000 compo win - girlie gear shocks workmates

They made it as uncomfortable for me as possible to make sure I didn’t stay

Vikki-Marie

Twice-wed former squaddie Michael Gaynor turned up in make-up and jewellery.

And she stunned workmates by asking them to call her Vikki-Marie in future.

From then on the 38-year-old’s life became hell, an employment tribunal in Liverpool was told.

One fellow driver drew up alongside her at traffic lights and flicked an offensive one-fingered salute, she claimed. But yesterday she was claiming victory after winning her sex discrim-ination case against Exel Europe, part of the DHL delivery firm network.

Afterwards Vikki-Marie, of Wallasey, Liverpool, said she is now awaiting a full sex-change operation to complete her transformation into a woman.

She revealed she had been secretly dressing as a woman for over 20 years.

“I wanted to stop living a lie, so I went to work dressed like I had always wanted to,” she said.

“But they made it as uncomfortable for me as possible to make sure I didn’t stay.

“They just didn’t know what to do with a guy who wanted to wear make-up.

“That did not mean I could not drive trucks. Neither was I about to come in wearing a tutu or a mini-skirt.”

Despite the £20,000 compensation award, Judge Dawn Shotter ruled that blonde Vikki should not be awarded damages for loss of earnings since quitting her job 18 months ago.